Kumar Bhattacharyya, Baron Bhattacharyya

Kumar Bhattacharyya, Baron Bhattacharyya (6 June 1940-1 March 2019) was a British-Indian professor and businessman who also served in the House of Lords as a Labour Party life peer from 2004 until his death in 2019.

Biography
Kumar Bhattacharyya was born in Bangalore, British Raj (now Bengaluru, India) in 1940, and he moved to Britain in 1960 to work for a large manufacturing company. In 1980, he became Professor of Manufacturing Systems at the University of Warwick and founded the Warwick Manufacturing Group, and he also became a prominent economic adviser. From 2004 until his death in 2019, he served as a Labour Party life peer in the House of Lords, and he died in 2019 at the age of 78.